The ladies at our barn in NC enjoy keeping up with your ranch fun. Our youngest lady keeps up with your blog and then emails us when she knows there's something us older gals would love. I'm thinking chickens in my back yard. . . maybe three. Going on a Tour d'Coop in Raleigh next weekend. . . can't wait. Plan to get some "ideas" & put them to use. Thanks for sharing the fun! Bobbie

OMG! You are the BOMB! I love your outside of the box and very fun and hip thinking! My 3 year old would be jealous. Just yesterday I talked her out of wanting to paint hers green....maybe I won't let her see these pics! Or maybe I could be fun and cool like you and just go for it!

Gotta tell you a story. Once upon a time I had to, at the last minute, ask my friend Lori if she could watch our place while we went out of town for a few days. Dogs, cats, horses, donkey...can do. Chickens? Petrified. I talked her into just going into the chicken stall everyday and changing water and adding feed. She said she thought she could do that.

She entered the stall the first day in sandals with her toenails painted "Peck-at-me-Red" ( not really but it sounded good here). The 15 girls immediately thought the most delightful 10 bugs, a bright red, had entered their domain. They attacked Lori's toes and she was outta there, permanently. For the next couple days she threw feed over the wall of the stall and snuck fresh water in the door before the girls went after her toes, even though they were a plain ole flesh color by then.

Needless to say...if you see everyone chasing everyone else's toes around...now you will know why!

I'm on the same page as gttyup: you might need to take breather from all the "farm life" and go to town and have a pedicure yourself? Or maybe some luch with folks who speak? Nothing personal....just talk to someone without so many whiskers, feathers, or hooves maybe? Happy Mothers Day